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One thing I didn’t realize until later in life is how the incentives of an industry shape your mood, your outlook, and even your character. In early stage investing, the incentives reward optimists, so it literally pays to keep an optimistic outlook. In journalism, the opposite…

You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

“Let me stop you right there…” Caribbean nation Guyana is booming after discovering oil. BBC’s Stephen Sackur puts it to President @presidentaligy; lobbyists say oil is bad for the climate. Dude wasn’t having it. Mans was ready! https://t.co/awy8OPIW2q

Christopher Nolan will receive a knighthood in England and become Sir Christopher Nolan. His producing partner and wife Emma Thomas has also received a damehood. https://t.co/CiVu0RNF0v

okay give them rights this is a god damn artform https://t.co/7AOfOjvGs7

A new desktop robot named Looi has been introduced, designed to bring smartphones to life. Looi can sense its surroundings and interact with users by telling jokes, playing games, and capturing special moments. The robot can transform into a wireless charger for smartphones and… https://t.co/qE5d14zmHY

If God wanted us to build Type 1 Civilization, he would have: 1. put a giant fusion reactor in the sky (emitting blackbody radiation around 5800 K) 2. made 28% of Earth's crust out of a semiconductor with a matching bandgap (~1.1 eV or so) 3. filled the oceans with an alkali… https://t.co/F22ffomEZ8

Hot take: Universities shouldnt teach tools like Git Universities are meant to challenge thinking, dive deep into concepts from first principles, and push academic boundaries They are not there to show you how to use Git or any other tool Professors can make students aware of…

Meet Hume’s Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), the first conversational AI with emotional intelligence. https://t.co/aAK5lIsegl

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Breaking news: the Event Horizon Telescope team unveils strong magnetic fields spiraling at the edge of Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*. This new image suggests that strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes. #OurBlackHole #SgrABlackHole https://t.co/BV8eON4Jhc

Meet #DBRX: a general-purpose LLM that sets a new standard for efficient open source models. Use the DBRX model in your RAG apps or use the DBRX design to build your own custom LLMs and improve the quality of your GenAI applications. https://t.co/wXzxQOZym6 https://t.co/CaW3wFfJko

atomic gardening is the most batshit thing I've ever heard of — yes, it's exactly what it sounds and looks like https://t.co/9oOQD7Cz7d

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Do we have any solid data on what long term effects heavy use of ChatGPT is having on students’ learning? https://t.co/NlrDqqSsQ5

There's a whole class of "research" based on saying nothing in an obscure enough way that no one can call you on it. Or at least, no human. It will be interesting if AI can expose such papers in the same way plagiarism detection software has exposed past plagiarism.

Sora for artists and filmmakers: https://t.co/Ysx3rGElxt https://t.co/VJtnXk2E6U

Why AI for creativity is dead in one slide. 🧵 https://t.co/pWoi1tTmjS

Students at a college in Legazpi City, Philippines made hats for their exam to prevent peaking at others' papers. 📹 Angeloebora1 https://t.co/oLayK6Ygma

Fun fact: We had a big party after Noland’s speech and we were all so moved and motivated that a bunch of people literally just went back to work instead https://t.co/2b0HCgCQJt

Journalists hearing the Neuralink news. https://t.co/gEhWUn3IX4

3.22.24. XB-1 takes flight. Today, Boom’s supersonic demonstrator aircraft, XB-1 safely and successfully executed its first flight at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, CA., flown by XB-1 Chief Test Pilot Bill “Doc” Shoemaker. Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg… https://t.co/mSlS1u3A9e

The solution to the Fermi paradox I’ll always believe is the universe is not rendered beyond the observers frame It is a compute-optimal simulation

Yesterday in an elevator, I ran into a finance professor—I explained to him I once was an economics major, but became an English major With horror he asked “Why would you switch from Economics to English?” Y’all. I’d waited MY WHOLE LIFE FOR THAT QUESTION FROM A FINANCE PROF

🚨LLMs outdebate humans when given access to opponents' personal Information!🚨 In a pre-reg study (N=820), participants who debated ChatGPT had 81.7% (p<0.01) higher odds of agreeing with their opponents after the debate (compared to a human baseline) 📜https://t.co/uM2vEposBW https://t.co/PLRrKFuing

as a longtime fan of Conway's "Game of Life" algorithm i never once considered visualizing the time axis physically -- this is breathtaking and elegant to me credit: https://t.co/qdPZiEAEPq https://t.co/yKDanPKvos

I had a go at it! Enjoy. https://t.co/ab5tW7q6Ky https://t.co/lC0JGngRn7

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While a PhD student at Stanford, I had to attend an interview to check whether I could teach in English. This was because my BA was from a foreign university; the University of Oxford. https://t.co/gw2EfokopM

sayang sekali memang masih ada case seperti ini. utk para penulis, saranku belajarlah utk memperlakukan novelmu sebagai IP yg potensial utk besok2 dikembangkan lagi. jadi hal2 yg bisa diperhatikan saat deal: 1. yg dijual adalah hak adaptasi, bukan full control atas IP. kalau mau… https://t.co/pl1F1uFfVk